For those in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, you might be familiar with the “Come Jam With Us” project. Every week, we get together for an hour and code on a particular topic. It is usually led by one or two people and the rest of the group codes along in order to learn about the topic at hand. It is a really great forum for learning new concepts and technologies.
This week, on Tuesday, March 2nd, I will be hosting an MVVM jam session at 5:30 (directions). I will be taking you through the process of transforming a “Ball of Mud” application to use the MVVM architecture. We will do this in a test-driven way, so you can see the testability story of MVVM.
The prerequisites are very simple:
1. Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 or Visual Studio Express (free)
2. Download the sample project. It is a rudimentary Twitter search application written with WPF.
3. You should have some way of running NUnit tests from Visual Studio. If you have ReSharper or TestDriven.Net (or any similar plug-in), then you are all set. ReSharper has a free 30 day trial and TestDriven.Net has a free version for personal use.
I hope to see you there!